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It’s what Saddles source was reporting that Browne felt ‘dissed’ that we dropped him for Stamenic and it is plausible. It’s unlikely we would’ve pursued 2 CM options simultaneously because we’d have been left with Stamenic, Browne, Eccles, Sheaf, Torp and Allen for 2 spots. It’s overkill from a...

I disagree, Stamenic has UCL experience and looked a real talent and whilst Browne is a good player and leader who undoubtedly improve the team, I reckon Stamenic would’ve been the better option. The club wants to get to the next level, signing a player who’s had a great career in the...

Here’s what we know of 3 targets: Stamenic - gazumped by Forest Browne - jilted because we went for Stamenic over him Mystery loanee CM - injured and only just come back It snowballed after we agreed terms with Stamenic because we believed he was signed and he pursued another option at the...

I didn’t think it needed to be explained in great detail, to be honest. It’s pretty self evident that the most important goal in a football match is the first goal. This is backed up statistically and the only teams to concede the first goal more often is Hull and Plymouth. Therefore, it does...

Agree with the sentiment, but isn’t all down to King. We’ve just missed out on players who would’ve fit that bill!

Agreed that the stats don’t take ‘game state’ into account and because we’ve conceded first so often, we’re chasing games and that would distort the xG somewhat in our favour. Conceding the first goal this season has been absolutely cancerous for our season 14 times in 24 games is only bettered...

Their defence was poor but on that particular goal, the replays show that the GK flapped it into his own net. If he’d parried it back into the box and we get the rebound in, fair enough. From our POV, Sakamoto did a great job to get in that position and leap up for the header, but it wasn’t a...

Exactly, in fact, for Sakamoto’s goal I’d have been livid if we conceded a goal like that. With Eccles’ strikes, both well struck but his 2nd should’ve been saved by the keeper. A lot of people around me asked if Brad Collins was playing for them… which says a lot. You take it because up until...

It’s not because Eccles scored two ranged efforts which are inherently low xG chances. We’ve seen Eccles take that shot to know those two goals, whilst great, were outliers. Just as Sheaf scored that screamer v Sheffield Wednesday away in the league. It’s not arbitrary, it’s people’s...

It’s a team effort, we’re clearly not functioning as well as last season and to me, it’s tactical / coaching. COH hasn’t pulled up trees at Sheff U and with Rudoni having a higher goals and assist output, it hasn’t been a massive loss. The Sakamoto-MVE has been overhyped, they had a good spell...

The team has been pants and if your source is right, it’s probably to do with the coaching this summer. If you’ve got 5, 6 or more of team underperforming, it’s not the players, it’s the manager/tactics/coaching and it’s still early days in FL’s tenure to make a massive impact.

I don’t think we’ll sell this window at all. He’s certainly worth a lot more than some of the sums people have banded about. Such short-sightedness!

Well worth the money for his goals in the FA cup alone, let alone his league goals.

Why weren’t people saying this about Wright and Simms last season? The base fee for Bassette and BTA is only 0.5m below Simms. Bassette plays like Vik except he’s nowhere near as good as him in his loan spell here. The narrative behind Bassette compared to BTA and Simms is a bit weird. He’s...

It felt like most of Saka’s passes were backwards and whilst he wasn’t the only person guilty of that, he frustrated me the most. Taking the easy option was something Robins referenced a few times this season and this was a problem today under Lampard. We need players who drive the ball out...

Bassette hasn’t looked like scoring against either of them. I respect Lampard for actually sticking with a striker because they need consistent game time - Haji Wright had a 5 game drought between his run pre-injury. Robins got to a point where Simms would start, then BTA, then Bassette and the...

With the players we’ve got, it’ll end up being EMC and Wright on the wings. If Sakamoto is getting good looks at the far post, imagine what EMC/Wright can do. Sakamoto had a purple patch in Dec-Feb, got injured and had this aura about him. He’s a decent player but his role will be a supporting...

For what it’s worth, Bassette will go on to be a good player, my personal opinion is that it’s too much, too young. On the Lampard point, it’s 7 games in Evo. I don’t think Bassette will keep his place for much longer if the last 2 games are to go by (that’s being slightly kind). The same was...

We don’t know, but Simms was wanted by many teams in our league including Ipswich. Under Robins, he got decision fatigued and couldn’t figure out who he wanted to play. Look at how EMC has thrived since MR has left. As for Lampard, he’s been here for 7 games, let’s wait how his team develops...

In his career at Cov, he averages about a goal every 195 minutes which is good by any reasonable metric. It hammers the point that needs to be played more often rather than having bit part sub cameos.